I have served. I don’t feel like I’ve been spit on. He’s not a slave. He gets to retire whenever the fuck he wants. He put in over his 20. He’s Gucci. Idgaf if he retired the day before his unit deployed to Baghdad or wherever they were slated to deploy. He owes nobody anything. He did his time and he did it with distinction. Anyone saying otherwise is too chickenshit to serve in the first place.

It’s only ad hominem if it’s wrong homie 🤷🏼‍♂️.You are refusing to accept this is common practice and it’s administrative in nature. It’s absolutely not stolen valor. Seriously dude. You don’t get to put your fingers in your ear and when someone says you’re acting fucking ignorant you act all shocked. Maybe actually look at shit objectively instead of assuming you are arguing from a position of being correct. I am a primary fucking source here I was in the military. Anyone else that has served will say the same. It’s not stolen valor. Period.

I’m not wrong though. You’re an imbecile lmao. I’m sure the 5 second google search was absolutely exhausting.

That’s LITERALLY what I fucking just said in the second paragraph. You obviously know nothing about the military. You say your rank at retirement. The reduction in rank is for administration purposes only. EVERYONE does this It’s not stolen valor lmao what a crock of shit. Man you would be so disappointed to learn about the history of brevet ranks if this gets you riled up.

Please feel free to prove me wrong. The ONLY situation I have seen an early promotion without the requisite requirements met is for officers who go to a military junior college, commission after 2 years, then have something like 3 years or so to get their bachelors.

I honestly don’t know much about his history other than his length of service and branch and that he was senior enlisted. What you seem to be describing is “time in grade” which means he would’ve achieved the rank of MSG or whatever but didn’t hold the position long enough to retire at that rank, thus you are retired at that lower rank/pay grade instead. You keep the rank and title though because you earned that shit.

That’s… not how promotions in the Army work. Like not at all.

Source: am former Army officer.